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minus-squareStrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 years agodeleted by creator
minus-squareyoungalfred@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·3 years agoPlay on the name Niamh, pronounced Neeve
minus-squarejerrythegenius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-28 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squarejavasux@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·3 years agoIrish spelling rules are actually very internally consistent, they just don’t use the Latin alphabet the same way that English does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography
minus-squarejerrythegenius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-28 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squareCheems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 years agoA lot of people think that Gaelic is what Irish actually is. Which they are two different languages
minus-squareReady! Player 31@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·3 years agoBecause Irish is literally a different language. You wouldn’t ask the same thing about French or Vietnamese or whatever.
minus-squarejerrythegenius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 years agoBecause “v” isn’t a letter in Irish, but it is a phoneme approximated by “mh” or “bh.”
minus-squareThe Octonaut@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 years agoNeeve in the north/east of Ireland, Nee-uv in the south/west where I’m from, making this meme even more annoying.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 years agoI imagine it is similar to peeve
minus-squareAdmiralShat@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 years agoThis comment said: Somebody please tell me how that’s pronounced… Please… I beg of you.
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Play on the name Niamh, pronounced Neeve
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Irish spelling rules are actually very internally consistent, they just don’t use the Latin alphabet the same way that English does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_orthography
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A lot of people think that Gaelic is what Irish actually is. Which they are two different languages
Because Irish is literally a different language. You wouldn’t ask the same thing about French or Vietnamese or whatever.
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Because “v” isn’t a letter in Irish, but it is a phoneme approximated by “mh” or “bh.”
Neeve in the north/east of Ireland, Nee-uv in the south/west where I’m from, making this meme even more annoying.
I imagine it is similar to peeve
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Somebody please tell me how that’s pronounced… Please… I beg of you.